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Los Angeles Music Review: THE OSCAR CONCERT (A.M.P.A.S. and LA Phil at Disney Hall)
HIGH SCORES FOR A CONCERT OF SCORES The logistics of putting together this terrific night, including an assemblage of Hollywood’s A-List composers and directors, must have been daunting. Indeed, so much work went into The Oscar Concert that it’s a shame it only played once. A co-production of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and…
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Los Angeles Music Review: DANIIL TRIFONOV & SERGEI BABAYAN (Two-Piano Recital at Disney Hall)
A WELL-MATCHED TEACHER AND STUDENT One of our greatest living pianists — if not the greatest — Daniil Trifonov (dan-EEL TREE-fon-ov) came to Disney Hall for a solo recital exactly two years ago. He played a gargantuan program lasting over 160 minutes. Included were the Brahms Chaconne in D minor for the Left Hand (after…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Boston Court in Pasadena)
A MODERNIZED STREETCAR Since struggle for power among the classes is one of the main themes in Tennessee Williams’ still-shocking A Streetcar Named Desire, it makes perfect sense that director Michael Michetti would choose to update the Pulitzer Prize winner for modern times. A Southern Belle schoolteacher, Blanche DuBois, arrives in New Orleans needing the…
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Los Angeles Music Review: JOHN ADAMS CONDUCTS (McIntosh World Premiere with the L.A. Phil)
A JUICY MCINTOSH What used to feel like the LA Phil’s token new music series seems to finally be hitting its stride. Green Umbrella is trending up thanks to a massive new commission budget and Los Angeles’s sudden role as new music tastemaker. Last Tuesday’s concert was the latest in what seems like a constant…
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CD Review: FIORENTINO PLAYS LISZT: Selections (Sergio Fiorentino)
FIORENTINO PLAYS LISZT His astounding musical insights turned the most well-known works into a brand new revelation, and his ken of composers from Chopin to Bach to Schumann to Scriabin was nearly unparalleled. But when this amazing Italian pianist died suddenly and painlessly at his home in 1998 at the age of 69, his fame…
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Chicago Theater Review: HAIL, HAIL CHUCK: A TRIBUTE TO CHUCK BERRY (Black Ensemble Theater)
JOHNNY BE BAD: A CHUCK ROAST Once more it’s homage time on Clark Street. The latest musical reclamation from Black Ensemble Theater, L. Maceo Ferris’s Hail, Hail Chuck: A Tribute to Chuck Berry is a very conditional salute to an early pioneer of rock and roll. As always with the company’s memory revues, we learn the price…
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San Diego Theater Review: CAMPING WITH HENRY AND TOM (Lamb’s Players Theatre)
THREE GREAT MINDS MAKE FOR INTRIGUING THEATER There’s a game where you get to pick three famous people and go to dinner with all of them. In Mark St. Germaine’s Camping with Henry and Tom, it’s kind of like that game, except it’s based on a true story. And you only get to watch the…
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Chicago Theater Review: SIX CORNERS (American Blues Theater at Stage 773)
MESSING UP MURDER The cops may be blue, the victims black, but in Six Corners the predominant color is gray. Marinating in moral relativism, this independent installment in Chicago playwright Keith Huff’s “cop trilogy” (also A Steady Rain and The Detective’s Wife) is an inside job in the best way. Huff, who married into a cop family and knows the…
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CD Review: WEINBERG Violin Concerto KABALEVSKY Piano Fantasy & Cello Concerto No. 1 (Cornelius Meister & the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra)
COMPOSERS FORGOTTEN NO MORE Immediately accessible and thrilling, the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO) — under the exciting leadership of its Principal Conductor and Artistic Director Cornelius Meister — and three young soloists bring us lesser-known works by equally lesser-known composers who are finally finding themselves, decades after their deaths, edging their way into…
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Music Preview: CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT (The Soraya and Irvine Barclay)
CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT IS PRECISELY WHAT YOU’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR Hooray and hallelujah! Long before her newest disc, Dreams and Daggers — a live double-CD set that won the 2018 Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album — I have always been a fan of jazz vocalist and song interpreter extraordinaire Cécile McLorin Salvant. But seeing…
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Chicago Opera Review: COSÌ FAN TUTTE (Lyric Opera)
A PRODUCTION TO COSÌ UP TO A Lyric Opera season would not be complete without Mozart, so it was with great anticipation that I attended the opening night performance of Così Fan Tutte. Although this production is not new to Chicago, having been seen during the 2006-07 season, it remains fairly fresh due to its…
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Los Angeles Theater Review: GUYS AND DOLLS (Musical Theatre West in Long Beach)
A BEAUTIFUL DOLL It’s amazing. Were this masterpiece from Broadway’s golden age an actual guy or doll, he or she would be scoring Social Security. But make no mistake, this 1950 hoofer is no worse for the wear, thanks to Frank Loesser’s timeless score and Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows’ cheeky book about strippers and…
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CD Review: ROBERT FUCHS — COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS (Minguet Quartet)
THE FUCHS, THE PROUD, THE MINGUET When Robert Fuchs died in 1927, just a few days after his 80th birthday, he was already a forgotten figure. He had been a friend of Brahms, who praised his music warmly, and he had taught a whole generation of composers including Sibelius, Mahler, Wolf, Zemlinsky, Schmidt and Schreker….
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Los Angeles Theater Preview: SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF A PLAY (Celebration Theatre)
SHORES ‘NUFF Texas-born playwright Del Shores, best known for his romp Sordid Lives (the hilarious play and movie that also introduced us to Leslie Jordan) is coming to the Celebration Theatre with the West Coast premiere of his one-man show, Six Characters in Search of a Play. In this 90-minute cavalcade of characters, Shores will introduce you to…
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Los Angeles Event Preview: THE LINCOLN LEGACY: THE MAN AND HIS PRESIDENCY (Tony Kushner and Sarah Vowell: In Conversation at UCLA)
HIS AND HERS HISTORY Looking for some inspiration? From Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner and lauded author Sarah Vowell comes a powerful examination of one of American history’s most singular figures: Abraham Lincoln. Presented by CAP UCLA, the dynamic duo will appear at Royce Hall this Thursday, February 22. Best known for his play Angels…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT (Promethean Theatre Ensemble)
AN EVERGREEN PARABLE OF RESISTANCE It’s a two-act tonic, this Madwoman of Chaillot. Life, Jean Giraudoux knew, is never safe from our constant “fever of destruction.” When decency gets beaten down, it’s good to know that it can be saved by the sewers of Paris, the final focus of this 1945 rampant satire from the French playwright….
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Cabaret Preview: MY KINDA 60’S (Charles Busch)
MY KINDA CABARET ACT It was the decade that changed our nation forever. What began as nothing but promise — victors of a World War and a young forward-thinking President — suddenly shifted with JFK’s assassination. A time of innocence and hope soon began to look like a time of anger and violence. Americans protested: End…
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Chicago Theater Review: THE BURN (Steppenwolf)
IN CYBER SPACE NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM On the Internet or just IRL, there’s joy in striking back — turning the tables and trolling the bullies. But what’s rotten one way is no better when reversed. That’s one of many toxic lessons in The Burn, a useful and even redemptive cautionary parable from Philip…
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CD Review: DER PERFEKTE MOMENT…WIRD HEUT VERPENNT [The Perfect Moment…Will Be Lost Today] (Max Raabe)
DREAMY PERFEKTION I have seen the charismatic German baritone Max Raabe and his 12-member Palast Orchester live three times; each time, the world-famous group — around since the mid-80s — embodies the high style and musical glory of the ‘20s and ‘30s as they perform songs from, and in the style of, that remarkable time….
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Theater Review: LOVE NEVER DIES (National Tour at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago)
THE PHANTOM NEVER DIED, BUT SHOULD HAVE Gaston Leroux knew: The original author of The Phantom of the Opera concluded his horror romance with his disfigured serial-killer as dead as Lon Chaney, while Christine Daae, stalked and sexually harassed throughout the Paris Opera House, was safe in the arms of her trusting Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny. In…
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